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Monitored calls should anger us

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Saturday June 8, 2013 4:45 AM

The customers of Verizon and probably of other communications companies should be outraged by
the disclosure that the government, by way of the National Security Agency, has been compromising
hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of their customers’ telephone calls on a bulk basis.

It isn't as if the government has a valid reason to monitor these calls, as in the person being
monitored has some type of terrorist ties or has broken some law. They are monitoring en masse,
because it is the easiest way. And, I might add, it is being done without specific warrants.

Do President Barack Obama and his supporters think we live in a Third World country, where he
and fellow elitists are the arbiters of who is a patriot? Consider some recent happenings: the
Internal Revenue Service targeting folks whose political beliefs are contrary to those of the
administration, the Health and Human Services Department trying to bypass Congress to fund
Obamacare when Congress refused to do so, the Benghazi cover-up where high government officials
lied and now the Justice Department spying on journalists by tapping their phone lines.

Some people compare the Benghazi scandal to that of the Watergate scandal of the ’70s. Had
Richard Nixon not resigned the presidency after it was discovered that he and his administration
had misled the American people, he most certainly would have been impeached.

Whether or not someone liked Nixon, one must admit that at least he was honorable enough to
resign. Obama has no honor and is only interested in furthering his socialist agenda, even if his
means of doing so are blatantly unconstitutional. As an aside, no one died because of
Watergate.